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Oil prices rise on continuing tension in Ukraine
April 14th, 2014
Crude oil prices have risen amid continuing tensions in Ukraine and concerns about possible disruptions to Russian gas supplies. The price of Brent crude futures rose above $108 a barrel in Monday trading – a gain of 0.8% on ...
More law firms face unrated PII threat
April 14th, 2014
Thousands of firms are weeks away from being plunged into uncertainty according to research showing an increasing number relying on unrated professional indemnity insurers. The survey results come weeks before the Solicitors Regulation Authority decides whether to ban unrated ...
Stocks Drop With Ruble as Ukraine Tension Spurs Gold
April 14th, 2014
Global stocks dropped a third day, the ruble tumbled and oil and gold advanced as the U.S. and Russia traded barbs in the United Nations Security Council amid worsening violence in Ukraine. The euro dropped on prospects for more ...
USD/JPY struggles to rally
April 14th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook In order for USD/JPY to preserve a bullish bias, it is required to rebound from 101.27/19, the key support area that consists of the rising trend-line, 200-day SMA and 50% retracement of the November-December up-move. However, for ...
EUR/USD starts weak with bearish gap
April 14th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook Friday’s price action and a large downside gap confirmed an assumption that there is a formidable resistance area between 1.39 and 1.395. Accordingly, while there could be a rally today in order to cover the distance between ...
How about… A Global Tax on the Superrich?
April 14th, 2014
Bill Gates washes his own dishes, as we learned this year from his Ask Me Anything session on Reddit, but he’s certainly not trying to save money. The world’s richest person is doing everything in his power to decrease ...
Putin Could Stop Selling Gas to Ukraine. Here’s Why He Won’t
April 14th, 2014
For a time this week, Vladimir Putin looked ready to turn off the gas. In an April 10 letter to 18 European heads of state, he warned that Russia could “completely or partially cease gas deliveries” to Ukraine, in ...
JPMorgan Chase Earns 19 Percent Less to Start the Year
April 14th, 2014
JPMorgan Chase (JPM), the largest but no longer the most profitable U.S. bank, announced a 19 percent decline in first-quarter earnings this morning, with weaker income from trading and sluggish mortgage activity. Shares fell as much as 3.7 percent ...
CySec: acquisition of Administrative Services Providers (ASP) licence
April 14th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that the following firms have successfully obtained the CySec license to operate as Administrative Services Providers (ASP): Profecto Management and Consultancy Limited Equation Corporate Services Ltd ...
Chinese Property Developers Stake Out Shares In Commercial Banks, Intensifying Systemic Risks
April 14th, 2014
Major Chinese property developers have in recent months been buying increasingly large stakes in regional banks, posing risk that an unravelling in the real estate market could leave both lenders and builders confronting losses big enough to pose a ...
